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Best pick for SA 🤡

The media is being a bit fanciful of late, building up the high expectations of Nick Xenophon at the next SA State election in March 2018.

They now have Nick as possible Premier; if he wins enough seats.

The likely outcome is that Nick's SA Best won't field enough candidates to give Nick the numbers to become Premier. Yes, he will win a good handful of seats; but certainly not a bucket-full.

Here's a scenario ...

What if Labor, Liberal and SA Best each get ~ 1/3 of the seats.

It may be that SA Best gets to form a coalition with Labor or Liberal; and with such a deal, maybe Nick would be Premier.

A preferable outcome would be Nick getting a handful of the best of Labor (a hard pick) and the best of the Liberals (a harder pick) and getting them to defect from their party and form a Government to truely represent the people.

This new coalition Government would have Nick X as Premier, Jay Weatherill as Minister for Energy and Batteries and Steven Marshall as Minister for Local Government.

It would be great to have a mix of pollies from all parties band together to form government.A good outcome for the state.I'm tired of the current system where one party wins by a seat or 2 and tries to represent all the people. It just degenerates into party politics.